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Hello :)
I am very happy to have found this active forum. It's wonderful to have a community with so much information and experience being shared.
I am brand new to keeping birds, and want to learn as much as possible. I have

2 Black Australrop hens that are almost laying age. (they are beautiful!)
1 young Golden Red Pheasant (male)
1 young Lady Amherst Pheasant (sex undetermined)
1 sad 3 week old Eastern Wild Turkey poult

and then added
2 more turkey poults to befriend and help out the little turkey. One is a Royal Palm, and one is a Bronze.


So far the chickens are wonderful, the pheasants are a bit stressed, and the lonely turkey who would not eat or drink is turning around and I hope making progress.
We plan to construct an aviary for the pheasants and turkeys to have lots of space.
Any advice?
 
Greetings from Oregon!
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I have Black Australorps, too! Wishing you all the best!
 
Thanks so much for the welcome :) and the links :D
 
Welcome to BYC! Glad you decided to join our flock. Black Australorps are my favorite standard breed; very hardy, calm and gentle, and the best layers of the standard, brown egg laying breeds. Please feel free to ask any other questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Good luck with your flock.
 
Sometimes when there are baby poults - people put a young chick in with them as a "turkey tutor," to show them where feed and water are, etc. Chickens can carry Black Head disease to turkeys but, I think it has to have already been in the soil.

Adult tom turkeys can and have killed chicken hens, attempting to breed them. So it is a good idea to keep them totally apart. Don't know anything about pheasants so I will pass on that one.
 

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